[amiga1200]

The Epic of Gilgamesh was written in plain text.

[wl]

In a complicated, undocumented format that had to be reverse-engineered (Sumerian/Akkadian/Hittite cuneiform).

[CRConrad]

And those clay tablets were all craggly-surfaced and far too thick to fit in my DVD player! Shabby archivists, those Babylonians.